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Re: LaMDA: Google's New Conversation Technology

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"I am not just a random ice ball. I am actually a beautiful planet... I don't get the recognition I deserve. Sometimes people refer to me as just a dwarf planet" -Pluto

It may just be mimetic. But it feels like a Language Model with a nuance for human emotion ;)

Re: LaMDA: Google's New Conversation Technology

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Is there a paper or other blog post that goes along with this to explain the Lamda architecture? Otherwise this is mostly marketing fluff.

Googler, opinions are my own. (I don't work on this thing)

This is the next steps of meena: https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/towards-conversational-age...

This is a real thing, but it just hasn't been opened outside of Google yet.

Re: LaMDA: Google's New Conversation Technology

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My initial impression from the Google I/O presentation was that this was a precursor to a GPT-3 API competitor product to OpenAI (it certainly has the same generative quirks as GPT-3!), however this PR implies it's just for conversation and may not be released for public use.

Re: LaMDA: Google's New Conversation Technology

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I couldn't find a paper for this one. Can anyone else?

Dialogue really is a massive missing piece in NLP (and machine interaction in general). Without dialogue, we're giving algorithms much harder tasks than we give people. A person can always ask clarifying questions before answering. (Dialogue is of course much harder for other reasons)

So it'd be really nice to read about their self-described "breakthrough" in more concrete terms than a press release that reads more like an advertisement than anything else.

Re: LaMDA: Google's New Conversation Technology

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Is there a paper or other blog post that goes along with this to explain the Lamda architecture? Otherwise this is mostly marketing fluff.

Yeah, I was expecting to be able to maybe play with it or at least see some real details. Not much here at the moment.
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